--- title: "Tong Sun — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Tong Sun, George Mason University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 19 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-sun/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-sun/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tong Sun # Tong Sun Tong Sun has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Ruiyi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruiyi-zhang/), [Ani Nenkova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ani-nenkova/), [Bang An](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bang-an/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101795165) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7298-0333) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130825293) · [**h-index 19**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101795165) · [88 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101795165) · [2,082 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101795165&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-sun/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 236 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-sun/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6598](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/66/#star-6598) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Tong+Sun) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tong+Sun) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tong+Sun) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tong+Sun) ## Affiliations [🎓**George Mason University** Fairfax · United States 2021–2026 · 7 papersEducation*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/george-mason-university/) · [🏢**Adobe Systems** San Jose · United States 2019–2025 · 22 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/adobe-systems/) · [🏢**Xerox** Norwalk · United States 2005–2013 · 15 papers](https://ror.org/03jwzwq24) · [🎓**Tampere University of Technology** Tampere · Finland 1992–2005 · 7 papers](https://ror.org/02ba3pt07) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Lowell** Lowell · United States 2016–2019 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-lowell/) · [🎓**Henan Agricultural University** Zhengzhou · China 2023–2024 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/04eq83d71) · [🎓**Shenyang Institute of Science and Technology** Shenyang · China 2021–2022 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/037670g05) · [🎓**Texas A&M University** College Station · United States 2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/texas-a-m-university/) · [🔬**Palo Alto Research Center** Palo Alto · United States 2014–2015 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/palo-alto-research-center/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 11 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-sun/year/2026/) · [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-sun/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[LLaVAR: Enhanced Visual Instruction Tuning for Text-Rich Image Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2023-llavar-enhanced-visual-instruction-tuning/)** *(2023 · 98 citations)* Visual instruction-tuned assistants such as LLaVA learn mostly from natural photos, so they handle text inside images poorly. 2. **[AutoDAN: Interpretable Gradient-Based Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2023-autodan-interpretable-gradient-based-adversarial/)** *(2023 · 90 citations)* Large language models can be pushed past their safety alignment in two ways. Hand-written jailbreaks read naturally, but there are few of them and providers can blocklist them. Gradient-based attacks such as GCG can produce endless prompts, but the output is gibberish that perplexity filters catch easily. This paper… 3. **[E-ABSA20K: A Dataset and Propose-and-Verify for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in Long E-commerce Reviews](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2026-e-absa20k-dataset-propose-verify/)** *(2026)* Most ABSA benchmarks consist of short texts from a few domains. Real e-commerce reviews are longer, mention many aspects at once, use informal language, and spread evidence across sentences. To address this gap, the authors built E-ABSA20K: 20,000 English reviews (about 0.8% code-mixed) from a Southeast Asian… ## All works 6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Towards Language-Free Training for Text-to-Image Generation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52688.2022.01738) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Yufan Zhou et al.*2022 · 216 citations* 2. **[Towards Interpreting and Mitigating Shortcut Learning Behavior of NLU models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.71/) Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Mengnan Du et al.*2021 · 120 citations* 3. [**LLaVAR: Enhanced Visual Instruction Tuning for Text-Rich Image Understanding arXiv:2306.17107**Yanzhe Zhang, Ruiyi Zhang, Jiuxiang Gu, et al.*2023 · 98 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2023-llavar-enhanced-visual-instruction-tuning/) 4. [**AutoDAN: Interpretable Gradient-Based Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models arXiv:2310.15140**Sicheng Zhu, Ruiyi Zhang, Bang An, et al.*2023 · 90 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2023-autodan-interpretable-gradient-based-adversarial/) 5. **[E-ABSA20K: A Dataset and Propose-and-Verify for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in Long E-commerce Reviews](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2026-e-absa20k-dataset-propose-verify/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Tong Sun, Mingyang Ma, Cheng Yu*2026* 6. **[Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research ↗](https://doi.org/10.17615/v2v2-ha84) Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · no summary yet**Raymond J. Mooney et al.*2025* ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ruiyi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruiyi-zhang/) ×2 - [Ani Nenkova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ani-nenkova/) - [Bang An](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bang-an/) - [Cheng Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-yu/) - [Diyi Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diyi-yang/) - [Furong Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/furong-huang/) - [Gang Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gang-wu/) - [Jiuxiang Gu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiuxiang-gu/) - [Joe Barrow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joe-barrow/) - [Nedim Lipka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nedim-lipka/) - [Yanzhe Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanzhe-zhang/) - [Zichao Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zichao-wang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 236 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [64 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-sun/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026